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Binary and Millisecond pulsars have a great deal to teach us about stellar evolution and are invaluable tools for tests of relativistic theories of gravity. Our understanding of these objects has been transformed by large-scale surveys that…

Astrophysics · Physics 2007-05-23 Matthew Bailes

In the absence of constraints from the binary companion or supernova remnant, the standard method for estimating pulsar ages is to infer an age from the rate of spin-down. While the generic spin-down age may give realistic estimates for…

Astrophysics of Galaxies · Physics 2015-03-13 Bulent Kiziltan , Stephen E. Thorsett

The updated catalogue of $\delta$ Sct stars in binary systems as well as their statistical properties are presented. Thanks to the Kepler, K2 and TESS space missions, this version of the catalogue contains more than 1000 $\delta$ Sct…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2025-05-07 Alexios Liakos

Pulsars have been recognized as normal neutron stars or quark stars. Sub-millisecond pulsars, if detected, would play an essential and important role in distinguishing quark stars from neutron stars. A key question is how sub-millisecond…

Astrophysics · Physics 2008-11-20 Yuanjie Du , R. X. Xu , G. J. Qiao , J. L. Han

As the evolutionary link between the radio millisecond pulsars (MSPs) and the low mass X-ray binaries or intermediate mass X-ray binaries, the millisecond X-ray pulsars (MSXPs) are important objects in testing theories of pulsar formation…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2015-10-14 Chunhua Zhu , Guoliang Lu , Zhaojun Wang

Studying the physical processes occurring in the region just above the magnetic poles of strongly magnetized, accreting binary neutron stars is essential to our understanding of stellar and binary system evolution. Perhaps more importantly,…

The timing of millisecond pulsars has long been used as an exquisitely precise tool for testing the building blocks of general relativity, including the strong equivalence principle and Lorentz symmetry. Observations of binary systems…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2021-08-31 Toral Gupta , Mario Herrero-Valea , Diego Blas , Enrico Barausse , Neil Cornish , Kent Yagi , Nicolás Yunes

Recent optical astrometric and spectroscopic surveys have identified numerous neutron star (NS) candidates in non-accreting detached binary systems, but their compact-object nature remains unconfirmed. In this work, we present targeted…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2025-11-26 Shi-Jie Gao , Xiang-Dong Li , Song Wang , Kareem El-Badry , De-Jiang Zhou , Yi-Xuan Shao , Zhen Yan , Pei Wang , Ping Zhou , Jin-Lin Han

Millisecond pulsars are old, fast spinning neutron stars thought to have evolved from classical pulsars in binary systems, where the rapid rotation is caused by the accretion of matter and angular momentum from their companion. During this…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2020-08-11 Marilyn Cruces , Andreas Reisenegger , Thomas M. Tauris

This article was co-authored by all invited speakers at the Joint Discussion on `Neutron Stars and Black Holes in Star Clusters,' which took place during the IAU General Assembly in Prague, Czech Republic, on August 17 and 18, 2006. Each…

In this paper, the second of a series, we study the stellar dynamical and evolutionary processes leading to the formation of compact binaries containing neutron stars (NSs) in dense globular clusters (GCs). For this study, 70 dense clusters…

Astrophysics · Physics 2009-11-13 N. Ivanova , C. Heinke , F. A. Rasio , K. Belczynski , J. Fregeau

We describe the model of surface emission from a rapidly rotating neutron star that is applied to Neutron Star Interior Composition Explorer X-ray data of millisecond pulsars in order to statistically constrain the neutron star mass-radius…

Accretion-induced collapse (AIC) of massive white-dwarfs (WDs) has been proposed as an important way for the formation of neutron star (NS) systems. An oxygen-neon (ONe) WD that accretes H-rich material from a red-giant (RG) star may…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2022-02-01 Bo Wang , Dongdong Liu , Hailiang Chen

Recently, extra motivation has been given to the investigations of an unresolved problem of millisecond pulsars (MSPs) produced by the recycling process, as an apparent role of the accretion-induced collapse (AIC) in white dwarfs (WDs) was…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2022-10-18 Ali Taani

Millisecond pulsars (MSPs) in binary systems are precise laboratories for tests of gravity and the physics of dense matter. Their orbits can show relativistic effects that provide a measurement of the neutron star mass and the pulsars are…

In general neutron stars in binaries are spinning. Due to the existence of millisecond pulsars we know that these spins can be substantial. We argue that spins with periods on the order a few dozen milliseconds could influence the late…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2011-08-11 Wolfgang Tichy

In this study, we investigate the contribution of millisecond pulsars (MSPs) to the gamma-ray excess observed in the Galactic Center by analyzing data from high-resolution direct N-body simulations of six globular clusters (GCs) that…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2024-10-22 Dana Kuvatova , Taras Panamarev , Maryna Ishchenko , Anton Gluchshenko , Peter Berczik

Microstructure emission, involving short time scale, often quasi-periodic, intensity fluctuations in subpulse emission, is well known in normal period pulsars. In this letter, we present the first detections of quasi-periodic microstructure…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2016-12-06 Kishalay De , Yashwant Gupta , Prateek Sharma

There exists a special class of X-ray pulsars that exhibit very slow pulsation of $P_{\rm spin}>1000$ s in the high mass X-ray binaries (HMXBs). We have studied the temporal and spectral properties of these superslow pulsation neutron star…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2015-06-12 W. Wang

We present the discovery and phase-coherent timing of four highly dispersed millisecond pulsars (MSPs) from the Arecibo PALFA Galactic plane survey: PSRs J1844+0115, J1850+0124, J1900+0308, and J1944+2236. Three of the four pulsars are in…